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Crashes: FRSC deploys safety engineers to Akungba for lasting solution

Ezekiel Johnson
Ezekiel Johnson
FRSC to impound vehicles transporting human beings with animals
FRSC on patrol

Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, has deployed safety engineers to Akungba to ascertain the causes of incessant trailer crashes in the route of the highway.

The engineers are also to find solutions to the problem.

The efforts are in addition to the ambulance rescue point earlier established close to the notorious spot for prompt rescue operations.

According to Bisi Kazeem, the Corps Public Education Officer, the deployment of the personnel came as part of strategic proactive step by the Corps Marshal to mitigate incidences of crashes on the highways, following the multiple crash that killed several passengers with others sustaining various degrees of injuries on Saturday, January 23, 2021 along Ikare-Owo road by Adekunle  Ajasin University, Akungba.

The Corps Marshal who spoke on the readiness of the corps to bring road traffic crashes to an end in Nigeria lamented the fatalities recorded in recent times on Nigerian roads, promising that the Corps would double its efforts to eradicate crashes, particularly those by articulated vehicles.

While recounting the number of people affected by the multiple crash, he said that the crash which was caused by break failure that resulted in loss of control, involved a Dangote truck, a Suzuki mini bus (XB973KAA) and a Lexus saloon car (KWL 522 AY) conveying a total of 18 passengers comprising of 11 female adults and 7 male adults.

Out of the aforementioned number of persons on board the three vehicles, a total of nine persons comprising five female adults and three male adults were killed, while a total of nine persons comprising five female adults and four male adults, sustained various injuries.

The FRSC rescue team at Akungba deposited the remains of six of the passengers who got killed at Ikare Specialist Hospital morgue and took six injured for urgent medical attention at the emergency ward of the same hospital.

The rescue team of the Nigeria Police Force deposited three dead and four injured at Iwaro General Hospital.

The entire rescue operation was carried out by a combined team of the FRSC, NPF, Army, and the DSS.

Oyeyemi expressed satisfaction with the growing synergy and friendly collaboration of security agencies in Nigeria, as he praised the Nigeria Police Force, the Nigerian Army and the Department of State Services who played a vital role in assisting in the evacuation of the victims and ensuring adequate deployment of men to control traffic around the crash scene.

“With the deployment of these professional and certified safety engineers, I am optimistic that the general factors responsible for road crashes on that route will surely be ascertained, and when that is done, necessary actions will be taken by appropriate agencies,” he concluded.

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